 reviewed by John Smythe 30 Apr 2012 |
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Proving we live in a resource-rich world for play-making Once more and EnsembleImpact quartet of actors ... is out on the road to introduce Kiwi schoolkids and regional communities to a rich treasure trove of New Zealand play writing ... This year, In Spite of Himself dips into all nine plays that Tim Spite's multi-award-winning SEEyD Theatre Company* has devised and performed since the germinal SEEyD took root in the 2000 Fringe Festival. [more] |
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reviewed by Lindsay Clark 17 May 2012 |
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Much to enjoy and ponder They know how to claim attention, this group, and they know how to sustain it. Set cleverly in transverse fashion across the body of a school hall, with the audience facing each other across the playing space, this series of issues-based pieces keeps ideas flowing and the adolescent audience – who could not all have wanted to be there – nicely attentive. [more] |
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reviewed by Sharon Matthews 29 May 2012 |
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Innovative and challenging work plants seeds of further enquiry The astonishing level of energy on the part of the EnsembleImpact quartet of actors —Brad McCormick, Bianca Seinafo, Nancy Kniveton and Adam Tatana — is truly remarkable in the face of Spartan performing conditions and a punishing touring schedule: 63 performances to 72 schools including eight community showings in Porirua, New Plymouth, Whangarei, Te Aroha, Kerikeri, Whangamata, Keirunga Homestead, and Papakura. [more] |
 IN THE MOOD at The Ruby Lounge, Bond Street reviewed by Jo Hodgson 25 Feb 2010 |
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More depth than the promo suggests It takes a little time for the voices to settle but they soon hit their stride with the next delightful original song ‘A to B’, written by director Paul Jenden and musical director/arranger Ruth Armishaw, playing on the words “a quick route/root (slang) from A to B”. Hilarious and strongly sung. [more] |
 reviewed by Paul Simei-Barton (New Zealand Herald) 20 Mar 2012 |
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Good vibrations raise laughs The play's two titles are intriguingly conflicted: the first has an allusive poetic quality while the alternative gives a blunt reminder of what the show is all about. [more] |
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reviewed by Vanessa Byrnes 18 Mar 2012 |
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Dense, witty, sharp, insightful and pushes the boundaries It’s always been true that opposites, like magnets, attract and repel just as violently, and the drama brought about by the juxtaposition of two different forces always makes for great drama; reason and emotion, science and art, private and public, male and female, birth and death. [more] |
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reviewed by Rosabel Tan (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 20 Mar 2012 |
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A Play In Need of Its Own Treatment We live in an age of sexual liberation: where mutual attempts to disentangle emotional and physical expressions of love are treated as an act of empowerment – friends with benefits, no strings attached. But whether they can be separated is another question altogether, and this is a focal point of Auckland Theatre Company’s latest production, In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. [more] |
 reviewed by Terry MacTavish 1 Jul 2012 |
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Charming naivety brings laughter and hope Oh – oh – OH! The ecstatic sighs on stage are met with ecstatic gasps from a full house and it is dazzlingly clear that In the Next Room will be a sensational success for the Fortune. Don’t waste a moment in booking: this is certain to be a sell-out. [more] |
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reviewed by Barbara Frame (Otago Daily Times) 2 Jul 2012 |
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Impulses and passions spark and flare In 1880s America electricity is a novelty. It lights Dr and Mrs Givings' living room, and in the adjacent surgery Dr Givings treats a common complaint, "hysteria," with electrically-induced "paroxysms." [more] |
 reviewed by Gail Pittaway 14 Nov 2011 |
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Good vibrations bring sexual and emotional emancipation It’s hard to avoid dreadful puns for this unusual comedy by contemporary American writer Sarah Ruhl, when the subject is the use of an electrical vibrator used by doctors in the late nineteenth century to cure women of hysterical illnesses by inducing physical release, a paroxysm; an orgasm, by any other name. [more] |
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